Kaveh Vaghar's research while affiliated with Vienna General Hospital and other places

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Bwiti, iboga, trance and healing in Gabon
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April 2019

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Mental Health Religion & Culture

Pierre Didier Nyongo Ndoua

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Kaveh Vaghar

The Bwiti is one out of several religions in Africa and through it, it is believed, that the members can be connected to the world of the ancestors. There is also the ritual of healing in Bwiti. In this ritual, participants are invited to take iboga. They fall into a trance and after this phase, which in principle lasts three days; those who were sick recover the health in many cases. We try to find out in the article, if the change of the state of consciousness like trance can heal. In the end we discover that it is possible. In Bwiti, the change of the paradigm is the most important principle.

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... The spiritual modality, for instance, hosts a wide variety of submodalities. These may include the richly described traditions of Brazilian Ayahuasca religions like Santo Daime, Uniao de vegetal, and A Barquinha (Araújo, 2002;Cemin, 2010;Hartogsohn, 2021;Melo, 2016), a diverse trio sharing some traits that bind them as a branch when compared against the peyotist Native American Church, and Iboga root use within the Gabonese Biwiti religion (Calabrese, 1997;Ndoua & Vaghar, 2018). All of these could be considered as microclimatic instances of their surrounding (Brazilian, Native American, and Central African) cultures. ...

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Modalities of the psychedelic experience: Microclimates of set and setting in hallucinogen research and culture
Bwiti, iboga, trance and healing in Gabon
  • Citing Article

  • April 2019

Mental Health Religion & Culture

Pierre Didier Nyongo Ndoua

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Kaveh Vaghar